| A | B |
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| Charles Newbold | invented the cast-iron plow |
| bank | Shawneetown had one of the first ones of these in Illinois |
| Springfield | where the first state fair was held |
| Illinois Michigan Canal | connected Lake Michigan to the Illinois River |
| Thomas Ford | governor who over saw the Illinois Michigan Canal project |
| special taxes | how Governor Ford repaid the canal debt |
| Jonathan Baldwin Turner | proposed the creation of a university for agriculture instruction |
| Little Egypt | nickname of Southern Illinois |
| John Deere | invented a steel plow |
| Moline | where Deere moved his plow factory |
| Clark Robinson Griggs | led the representatives of Champaign-Urbana lobbying for the university |
| Illinois Industrial University | original name of the University of Illinois |
| land-grant college | a state university created with funds from the sale of land to teach agriculture and mechanics |
| Shawneetown | largest town in Southern Illinois in 1818, a federally planned city |
| State Fair | held in 1853 to educate farmers and allow them to display their livestock |
